Article: Value of massage therapy for patients in a breast clinic.(Survey)

Patients who suspect or recently were told they have breast cancer can experience high levels of anxiety. A 2004 study at Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates using the Impact of Event Scale showed that patients with abnormal mammograms have higher anxiety levels than patients with normal mammograms, even when they learn that the results were false-positive (Barton et al., 2004). Anecdotal evidence provided by the breast diagnostic clinic and breast cancer clinic staff at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN, also suggested high levels of stress and anxiety among patients evaluated at those clinics. Events that may cause anxiety and stress include learning the results of a breast ...

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